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WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge

First WWF console game with a steel cage match.

WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge is a professional wrestling video game based on the World Wrestling Federation, released by Acclaim Entertainment for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 and for the Master System and Game Gear in 1993. It was the first WWF console-based game to feature a steel cage match. The NES version was later re-released in 2018 as a handheld TV game under the name WWE WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge, with the WWF branding replaced by WWE and two roster changes.

Quick Facts

Developer
Sculptured Software (NES); Teeny Weeny Games (Game Gear/SMS)
Programmer
Ken Moore
Platforms
Nintendo Entertainment System, Master System, Game Gear, TV game
Composer
Paul Webb (NES); Matt Furniss (Game Gear/SMS)
Genre
Wrestling
Modes
Single-player, multiplayer

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Gameplay

Players can choose from several match types: a standard one-on-one bout, a steel cage match, tag team action, a WWF Championship mode where you pick one wrestler and beat everyone else for the title, and a Tag Team Championship mode where you select two grapplers and defeat all other tag combos. The game features ten playable wrestlers. On the NES, the roster includes Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, I.R.S., Bret Hart, The Undertaker, Jake Roberts, Sid Justice, Roddy Piper, and The Mountie. The Sega version swaps the last four for Ric Flair, Papa Shango, Shawn Michaels, and Tatanka. The TV game version keeps the NES lineup but replaces Hogan with Ultimate Warrior and The Mountie with Razor Ramon. Every wrestler shares the same moves: punches, kicks, grapples like body slams and headbutts, running attacks such as flying clotheslines and dropkicks, a powerslam against a running foe, ground stomps and elbow drops, and a turnbuckle move. No wrestler has a finishing move.

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